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February 21, 2006
We are 100 percent certain: This plan won't help kidsThe Georgia House last week approved Gov. Sonny Perdue's bill to require local school systems to spend at least 65 percent of their money in classrooms, pushing the plan close to final passage, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "What you're doing with this bill is you're telling local people what they can do with local money," AJC quotes state Rep. Ellis Black, a former chairman of his local school board. "As noble as the purpose of this bill is, it isn't going to get you there."
The plan's godfather calls it "simple and intuitive." But it turns out what it is really about is something a bit more obvious.
"It's about politics," state Rep. Alan Powell told the AJC. "I have no problems with this proposition, except this will probably be another nail in the coffin of local school systems."
Well, we do have a problem with this silliness. Here is but one road bump on the way to world dominance for this effort: A couple months back, Standard & Poor's found "no empirical evidence." And on the way in Minnesota: the 70 percent solution.
Posted February 21, 2006 3:34 PM | School Finance
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